[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Illinois Basin includes all the coals in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and western Kentucky. The phrase was in the obits of virtually anyone who had been in the coal biz.

[stand watie]

OK. thanks for the explanation. i'm not from coal country, but rather from the east TX "awl patch".

(PLEASE, don't tell mama i'm in the AWL BIZNESS. she thinks i play piano in a bawdy-house in east Dallas.)

LOL.

free dixie NOW,sw